KAFD Station (محطة المرکز المالي) is a rapid transit station that will be serving the Yellow, Blue and Violet Lines of the Riyadh Metro as well as the under-construction KAFD monorail[1] in the al-Aqeeq neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located in the King Abdullah Financial District.
Covering an area of 8150 square meters, it was designed by UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects. Its inspiration is drawn from mashrabiya screens and patterns generated by desert winds in sand dunes. The station includes six metro tracks.
KAFD succeeds Dr Sulaiman Al Habib and precedes Al Murooj on the Blue Line while preceding Ar Rabi interchange station on Yellow and Violet Lines.
In 2013, Zaha Hadid Architects won the competition held by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City for designing the KAFD metro station, which was then slated to complete by 2017.
The project began in 2014 while the tunneling work on Line 1 started in July 2015. The exterior of the station was in an unclad skeletal state by 2019. In early 2024, it was reported that the station has nearly been completed. The station achieved Gold level LEED Certification in October 2024.
